Originally posted by d4ddi0
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The current situation in android is getting a device that has a kernel that will reach/be EOL'd within a year or less and maybe get one OS upgrade... this solution will see devices potentially get 4 major OS upgrades and a kernel that has roughly 4yrs of support from release... it would seem to me that the current situation is much worse 😒
The vendors can't just continually target the latest kernel. Mainline and the android (common) kernel tree are not the same thing. (excluding Vendor patches).... linux development just rolls along, vendors need a stable target; that's why LTS exists to begin with....
I think vendors targetting every kernel release would be problematic and wouldn't help with development of their next soc, in the slightest... not only that; there is no android common tree for linux beyond linux-4.4... so I don't see how that would work at all.
Maybe you could explain the specifics and merits to your thinking?
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